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To do evil, they're trying to get a job and hear there might be a job in philly or chicago or whatever and they're going for it. they get a word from a cousin, there's a job open here, you got to get up here. should we allow guest workers? >> that's the larger problem. is the legal immigration system is broken and under president trump's leadership, he's trying to block immigrants in every conceivable way. >> possible guest worker programs? >> absolutely. >> you say you would sue if the president of the united states took 4 or $5 billion from defense and spent it on the wall. >> we can do it l...

Mexican border? >> no, illegal border crossings are at a historic low level. leland: do we have an immigration crisis? >> yeah, we have a broken immigration situation. leland: we don't have a crisis on the border? >> we need to fix the amnesty procedures. we need to fix the guest worker programs and we need to fix border security and fix a lot of stuff, unfortunately, again, we tried five years ago and couldn't get it done. we need to try it again. leland: good point. better luck this time, sir. we appreciate it and when you get back to d.c. we'll check back with you. good to see you, sir. >> ...

Control of the senate. steve: how is that working out? >> well, still needs 60 votes. but it should be a little bit easier for immigration issues on the senate side, perhaps. but the problem is the house of representatives and the republicans did not take this opportunity to deliver border security to the president when they had control and that's because house and senate leadership simply were more interested in passing things like increasing guest worker programs and tinkering with other parts of the immigration system for employers than delivering the border security. and now the president ...

How do we talk about future immigration. that's a grown up conversation to have. how do we recognize that a lot of these undocumented immigrants pay $11 billion to our economy back in tacks evexes every sing. they pay more than the president of the united states. >> this should be a bipartisan conversation. there are lots of republicans with very, very sensible views of immigration. lots of states run by republicans where they realize we need guest worker programs and all sorts of things. our conversation has focused on it's a boogey man. we have an immigration problem and it's not the one don...

Mexico said they won't do that. we'll have to see what the mexican government does. arthel: neil is a report for "roll call." let's talk about that interview. that gentleman is saying he wasn't seeking political asylum. he didn't say he was running from the bad guys. he wants to come here because he wants a job to send money back to his family. what do you say to that? >> the u.s. long has had some guest worker programs and legal ways through which people coming in as migrant farm workers and other laborers have come into the u.s. but that has been more restricted under the trump administratio...